Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by flohofwoe on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:08AM (#27516601)

Neither Win7 nor Win10 crashes on me, but the whole "user experience" has been such an inconsistent mess after Win7, even though Win10 tried to undo the worst UX sins of Win8 it's still a far ways off from Win7.

It's as if the Windows team is trying to throw random shit to the wall to see what sticks instead of trying to do slow and steady improvements.

Apparently Win10 has some serious improvements over Win7 under the hood, but those technological improvements don't count much if the user facing parts are quickly deteriorating.

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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by passivate on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @12:59PM (#27518192)

Win 7 doesn't handle high dpi properly, doesn't have secure boot, storage pools, usb 3 (IIRC), DX12, face unlock, etc. There is quite a lot of UX stuff that has changed since 7.

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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by flohofwoe on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @02:29PM (#27519539)

Most of those are what I described as under-the-hood-changes though.

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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by passivate on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @06:02PM (#27522093)

I do understand where you're coming from, but I guess I see it differently - For e.g. High DPI directly impacts UX for me as I can run older applications at 150% without squinting at the tiny icons. Security is part of UX for me, etc.

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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by tored on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @01:18PM (#27518454)

Windows 7 has the old network stack, can be slower in some situations.

Lots of security improvements since Windows 7 with Windows Defender.

Didn’t MS also improve font rendering?

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